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I suspect three main motivations for the black hat hackers:
1. Greed.
Obvioius.
2. Power.
They got picked on in high school and they want to excersize some sort of power over someone else.
3. Noteriety.
They were ignored in high school and now they want poeple to notice them (and how powerful they are).
I led the development of an invoicing system for a company with $2 billion per year in sales.
As i was developing the system, I really worried about the professional computer thief who is not greedy, never tells any one what they can do or have done, lives a modest lifestyle, and steals a half a million dollars without anyone noticing.
Large companies almost never publicize when they are defrauded, even inside the company. It happens surprisingly frequently. (Luckily, never on a system I've directly worked on.)
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